The Idle Rich by Walt Mason
A poem in which the speaker favors honest toil over easy wealth. He values money earned through sweat and labor, comparing his sweat stained coin to the idle rich who acquire wealth with little effort. The verse contrasts hard work with inherited or easily gained riches and emphasizes personal pride in earned income.
Untitled 1915 Classified Notice on Aged Home
A brief notice notes a quiet home for sick and aged people. It cites Mrs. Sarah Helmer at 502 Cedar Street and references a preference for modest means over fortune’s gifts. The fragment reflects sentiment about earned hardship and humility.
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Sarah Helmer
Cedar Street
Parade to open State Sunday school convention
DSE MOVIES la June 20 All in readiness for the grand parade tonight featuring 10 001 Sunday school boys and delegations from Marshall town Stuart Waterloo and other towns in line behind twenty bands State officials city officials college presidents and school authorities will attend. Streets are decorated for the event.
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United Press
DSE Movies
Chas
Wharton
Marshalltown
Stuart
Waterloo
Newspaper Men in Oregon Visit En Route to Expositions
United Press report from Portland on June 23 notes 130 American National Press Association members touring the city on a special eastbound train after travel through the Canadian Rockies. The item reads as a brief society note about press visitors and includes an advertisement from Henshaw and Martin The People's Store claiming china washing without decoration or gold loss.
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United Press
Portland
Ofe
American National Press Association
California Expositions
Rockies
Henshaw& Martin
People’s Store
New York
San Francisco
Department of Justice
England
Extension for Des Moines Car Line and Iowa Court Actions
Iowa Supreme Court grants a second extension for Des Moines street railway franchise until August 22, enabling the company to operate or exit. The court orders temporary alimony of $ a month for Dr. William Jepson pending his divorce appeal. It reverses a damages case against the Illinois Central Railroad and requires Mayor D. M. Hamilton of Moville to answer a damage suit. Iowa corn crop damage due to wet conditions. fields rotting or washed out, acreage to shrink. Re-election chances for Rev. W. H. Beachler as Iowa Sunday School association president. Clinton favored for 1916 convention. Emergency currency largely retired after last year’s financial strain.
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Des Moines
Iowa Supreme Couts Blanc
Street
Moines
William Jepson
Sioux City
Jepson
Medical School
The
State University
Towa
Iowa Supreme Court
Rock Rapids
Supreme Court
Iowa
Hinton
W. H. Beachler
Waterloo
Iowa Sunday School Association
Clinton
Aus
Dubuque
Percy W. Hall
State Bankers' Association
Davenport
Association
Brewster Loses Job at Colorado University
Professor James H. Brewster of the University of Colorado law faculty says he was removed for sympathizing with Colorado coal miners in the spring 1914 strike. He notes that Governor Ammons demanded dismissal last December but President Farrand refused. Morgan & Co and the Rothschilds plan a new French loan secured by high grade railway bonds. John J. Powers Jr., 20, tops Cedar Rapids state golf qualifying with 160 for 36 holes. Fort Dodge dedicates a $50,000 Masonic temple with officials from Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery attending.
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Colorado
Brewster
Farrand
Morgan
New York
J. P. Morgan & Co
Rothschilds of
Paris
Cedar Rapids
John J. Powers, Jr
Cedal Rapids
Masonic Temple
Fort Dodge
Middle West
Blue Lodge
Iowa
U S Marines Not Landed at Yaqui Valley Conference
Fifteen hundred Villa troops under General Sosa were promised protection for foreigners in the Yaqui valley after a conference aboard the Colorado with Admiral Howard and General Leyva. Leyva warned marines landing could be misinterpreted, pledging safe escort for foreigners and Mexicans in danger.
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Mex
Villa
Sosa
Yaqui Valley
Colorado
Howard
Pacific Fleet
Leyva
Giay
W. J. Phillips
Ashley Robertson
George Williams
Cleveland
Levy
Mayo Indians Rampage Across Mexican Towns
Mayo Indians who imitate the Yaquis sacked Los Mochis Sinoca, according to J P Taylor, manager of a sugar company in the region, who telegraphed to the secretary of state in Washington asking for protection.
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Nogales
Ariz
Sonora
Mex
Los Mochis
Sinoca
J. P. Taylor
Washington
Pert Personals and notable quips in late editorials
A collage of quotes notes George Bernard Shaw rejoicing over threats to life and neglect seen as worse than death. It cites Vincent Astor showing interest in food and rent troubles, and comments on Jess Willard’s oversized head remaining normal, as reported by Philadelphia Ledger and Detroit Free Press and Birmingham Age-Herald.
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George Bernard She v
G. B
Philadelphia Ledger
Ttds
Vincent Astor
Free Press
Jess Willard
Birmingham Age-Herald
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